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Title: School architecture; a handy manual for the use of architects and school authorities
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bruce, William George, 1856-1949 Bruce, William Conrad, 1882- Bruce, Frank Milton, 1885- (from old catalog)
Subjects: School buildings
Publisher: Milwaukee, Johnson service company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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stairs should be Q)/> inches, with13-inch treads, in primary schools, and in otherschools, 7-inch risers with 13-inch treads. A min-imum of five feet is generally recognized as thecorrect width of staircases. This may be in-creased by V/2 feet per 100 additional pupils. Longflights of consecutive stairs should always bebroken by horizontal landings, which should be atleast V/z times the width of the stairs. Triangu-lar and circular stairs should give way to fire-proof box staircases or open staircases withbalustrade. Under all conditions, staircases should be ab-solutely fireproof. This includes not only wallsand casings, but the skeleton and body of thestairs themselves. The most modern schools arenow provided with iron runners set in solid brickwalls, with treads of concrete, cut stone or as-phalt. They may be covered with wood, rubberor metallic safety treads and provided with firecut-offs. Staircases should be arranged near en-trances and should be run to top floor when once 41
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42 School Architecture begun. Windows should be about four feet abovethe level of the stair landing. Every stairway should be equipped with ahand railing, running the entire length withoutany break at the landings. This should be plain,smooth and preferably made of hard wood. Threeinches diameter will allow the average child aneasy grasp of a wood hand rail. The iron piperailing, though cold and uninviting, is often usedand should be about V/x inches in diameter. Itis usually supported on wrought iron bracketswith the ends turned back to the wainscoting.Thirty-six inches is about the right height of theaverage hand railing. The so-called Duplex or double reversestairways in use in the public schools of NewYork City are excellent and permit of great sav-ing in floor space. They are of steel construc-tion with cut stone or asphalt filled treads. Onthe corridor side they are enclosed from top tobottom with partitions made of wire glass set insteel frames. Access is had to the floor landi

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